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Sunday, April 21, 2024
in 4get
1 min read

4get instance shutdown

As of 21^st April 2024, the 4get instance at perennialte.ch (4get.perennialte.ch) will no longer be available.

The decision to discontinue hosting was made due to frequent instability and breakage of the service. The core issues stem from untested code changes being pushed directly to the master branch. These changes often failed to account for setups where the application runs behind a reverse proxy rather than being exposed directly to the Internet. Compatibility issues also regularly arose when running the application in a Kubernetes environment.

In the future, once the underlying issues with the codebase are addressed and the application is more stable across various deployment configurations, hosting 4get again may be considered.

In the meantime, please use one of the alternative 4get instances listed on the official instance browser at https://4get.ca/instances.

Saturday, April 20, 2024
in Linux
4 min read

Enforcing correct EDID for a monitor

If your monitor's native resolution is not automatically detected or no display is detected at all, it may be due to the monitor sending an incorrect or missing EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) file. In such cases, the kernel will attempt to set one of the most common resolutions as a fallback.

If you have a valid EDID file for your monitor, you can explicitly enforce it to resolve the issue. However, in most cases, you may not have direct access to a correct EDID file. In this situation, you can either extract an existing EDID and fix it or generate a new one.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024
in Nitter
2 min read

Public Nitter instance shutdown

On 26^th January 2024, Twitter discontinued the creation of guest accounts, used by Nitter instances to fetch content from Twitter, via their API. This placed enormous strain on all public Nitter instances caused by an influx of scraping traffic from rate limited crawlers, essentially simulating a DDoS attack (Figure 1).